decoupling
[diːˈkʌpəlɪŋ]
"decoupling" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“decoupling” is uncommon English (frequency #54,112 among 3,470 “D” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,112
- frequency rank, English
- 3,470
- “D” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - present participle and gerund of decouple
Corpus desk
Index EN-decoupling · decoupling · English
decoupling · rank #54,112 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,112
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,470
- PHOTO-FINISH DefCon
Nearest frequency peer: DefCon (+1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “decoupling”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- dampness
dampness
45,893 corpus weight
- decoupling
decoupling
45,889 corpus weight
- DefCon
DefCon
45,888 corpus weight
- delicatessen
delicatessen
45,886 corpus weight
- delude
delude
45,885 corpus weight
- demagogue
demagogue
45,884 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “decoupling” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | decoupling |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [diːˈkʌpəlɪŋ] |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #54,112 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “decoupling” in English
Rare enough to double-check
decoupling is uncommon English at frequency #54,112 among 3,470 “D” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [diːˈkʌpəlɪŋ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "present participle and gerund of decouple".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for decoupling, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct English form is decoupling, spelled D-E-C-O-U-P-L-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1present participle and gerund of decouple
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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